Legal Opinion
Knowles v. City of Granbury
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided October 2, 1997No. 2-96-215-CVPublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAUPHINOT, Justice.
This ease stems from an alleged incident involving children, a municipal airport, an open, unlocked hangar, and a private airplane.
BACKGROUND FACTS
Dr. Perry Knowles stored his 1970 Cessna in a large, locked hangar at Granbury Municipal Airport, which is owned and operated by the City of Granbury. He paid Granbury 90 dollars per month to store the airplane. Although other airplanes were kept in the same hangar, no one except C.W. Smith, the airport manager, and the airport attendant had a key to the hangar. Therefore, no one, not even the owners of the airplanes,…
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